Directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (“Resolution,” “Endless,” “Spring,” “Synchronic”) recently talked to Collider about their unique collaboration with Marvel. Naturally, the pair were asked about how exactly they landed the “Loki” gig after taking their first steps into the superhero franchise with “Moon Knight.” According to Moorhead,

“I mean, we’re still kind of even processing being handed that job. But I suppose what we can say about it is that we’re really, really proud of what we’ve done on ‘Moon Knight.’ I think that Marvel really likes what we’re able to do on ‘Moon Knight.’ And so we’re hoping to kind of take all the lessons that we learned, which are infinite, the unbelievable amount of life experience, and craft, and art that we made in ‘Moon Knight.’ And we want to take all of that and kind of bundle it back together as we lead ‘Loki.'”

On the surface, the characters of Loki and Moon Knight would seem to be as disparate and unrelated as it gets — one a mentally ill individual coping with dissociative identity disorder and embracing his darkest impulses, the other a magical space alien tumbling down the multiverse on a quest for redemption — but the two directors managed to tap into one particularly interesting connection between them. Benson explains that “…it’s also nice to be tackling another character in the MCU who is defined by being different than the rest of the pack.” After Moorhead chimes in once again to describe both of them as an “outcast,” Benson goes on to state:

“They all have complexity, but these two have complexity in being outcasts, and there’s something about that that feels very special and an honor to tackle.”

Could Benson and Moorhead find themselves on their way to becoming the franchise’s next iteration of the Russo brothers? Personally, I kind of hope not, as they both clearly have lots of talent and ideas that would be best served outside the IP machine. But for as long as the folks at Marvel have them, we should all be looking forward to seeing their names pop up in the credits.